Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program: Permits and Reports
| Published date | 22 February 2024 |
| Record Number | 2024-03621 |
| Citation | 89 FR 13311 |
| Court | National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration |
| Section | Notices |
Federal Register, Volume 89 Issue 36 (Thursday, February 22, 2024)
[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 36 (Thursday, February 22, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13311-13312]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-03621]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program: Permits and Reports
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on September 19, 2023, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program: Permits and
Reports.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0545.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a current
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 6.
Average Hours per Response: Application for Rockfish Cooperative
Fishing Quota: 2 hours; Application for Inter-Cooperative Transfer of
Rockfish Cooperative Quota: 10 minutes; Rockfish Program Vessel Check-
In/Check-Out: 10 minutes; Termination of Fishing Report: 10 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 39 hours.
Needs and Uses: This information collection contains requirements
for the Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program (Rockfish Program) and
is necessary for NMFS to administer and monitor compliance with the
management provisions of the Rockfish Program. This information
collection is required
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in Rockfish Program regulations at 50 CFR part 679.
The Rockfish Program is a limited access privilege program
developed to enhance resource conservation and improve economic
efficiency in the Central Gulf of Alaska rockfish fisheries. The
rockfish fisheries are conducted in Federal waters near Kodiak, Alaska,
by trawl vessels and longline vessels. The Rockfish Program assigns
quota share (QS) to License Limitation Program (LLP) licenses for
rockfish primary and secondary species based on legal landings
associated with that LLP.
Each year, an LLP license holder assigns the LLP license with
rockfish QS to a rockfish cooperative. Each rockfish cooperative
receives an annual cooperative fishing quota (CQ), which is an amount
of primary and secondary rockfish species the cooperative is able to
harvest in that fishing year.
This collection contains the information collection requirements
submitted by the rockfish cooperatives for an annual rockfish CQ
permit, inter-cooperative quota transfers, vessel check-in/check-out
reports, and termination of fishing reports.
The Application for Rockfish Cooperative Fishing Quota is submitted
annually by a rockfish cooperative to receive the cooperative's annual
CQ permit. The application collects rockfish cooperative identification
information, LLP holder and ownership documentation for the members of
the cooperative applying for QS, identification information for vessels
of the cooperative members, shoreside processor associate
identification information, certifications of the cooperative
representative and processor associate(s), and required attachments.
The Application for Inter-Cooperative Transfer of CQ is used by a
rockfish cooperative to transfer CQ to another rockfish cooperative.
The information collected includes information on the QS to be
transferred. This information is used by NMFS to monitor transfers to
ensure they do not exceed ownership or use caps for the fishery.
The Rockfish Program vessel check-in report must be submitted
before a vessel authorized to fish under the cooperative's permit
starts fishing for the cooperative, and a check-out report when a
vessel stops fishing for the cooperative during the fishing season. The
check-in and check-out reports are necessary so that NMFS's catch
accounting system can identify catch by a vessel that should accrue to
a rockfish cooperative quota allocation from catch that occurs in
other, non-Rockfish Program fisheries.
A rockfish cooperative may choose to terminate its CQ permit
through a termination of fishing report submitted to NMFS. This
notifies NMFS that all vessels fishing for the cooperative have
completed fishing in the Rockfish Program for the year.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Annually; as needed.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary; Required to Obtain or Retain
Benefits; Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act.
This information collection request may be viewed at
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB
Control Number 0648-0545.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-03621 Filed 2-21-24; 8:45 am]
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